May!

I was excited to find these suits on the sale rack at Wal-mart. $6/each and my boys look so handsome! Eleanor has a new trick. She loooooves playing with her toes. :)

This scripture brought immediate peace to me last week during my scripture study. We have lots of changes coming up this summer and we're terrified/excited...verse 25 brought me so much peace.

I spent Saturday afternoon with the YW assembling Mother's Day breakfasts for a camp fundraiser.

Austin loves cuddling his Eleanora (as he calls her haha)

MOTHER'S DAY!! The boys bought me a pink karaoke microphone. We all love it. Here is the breakfast Aaron purchased from the YW. It was delicious and oh so full of sugar. And I love sugar. But it was a lot for my tasting.

All I wanted for Mother's Day was a picture. We were running late to church (and we have it at 1:00 p.m. hahah) so we snapped a few after church. I love being a mother! I don't know why having a daughter changed me, but I really want my children to remember that I was happy being their mom. It's a tough job and I cry in frustration or exhaustion or both some days, but this really is my dream come true. 

I've now been a stay at home mom for as long as I worked in corporate America. There are days I miss having lunch with my coworkers, getting a pay check plus an annual raise... BUT, when all is said and done, I absolutely love being at home. I get to experience the best of the best of every day moments and the worst of the worst. 

A few years ago when I was visiting my grandma, one of her cousins was visiting and she told me this...

"As a mother with 5 young kids, I remember just wishing for some alone time. Now, all my children have left the home and my husband passed away and I'm alone most of the time and I'm so lonely." I think of her comment multiple times a day some days and take a deep breath and cherish this time surrounded by my little children. I love them! I hope they'll always know that. 

I'm so grateful for my own mother who happily served us when we were young children. I remember her smiling as she made dinner and her music talents blessed our home. She really is my inspiration! She continues to serve those around her and brighten my life.

And, as I thought about Mother's Day, I thought about how my dear husband does so much in order to make it possible for me to be a mother. I couldn't do parenting without him!